In Common by chameleon I still remember how she told me how she pissed her pants in fear “thirty-fuckin-four years old wettin my pants because he was the law and he was lookin at me and he was” mad as the boy who held a knife at my throat because the only white women on these streets are ho’s, mama, and so I knew how the heat and sting of your own piss becomes the sting of humiliation in your cheeks. It was just one more thing we had in common, Antoinette and me, along with a shared birthday and a shared passion to level the playing field for our five children each. We both wanted the same thing for her five boys - the same opportunities that held out their hands to my five that’s why I tutored hers in math and she organized backyard meetings with the po’ She asked me once why I did it and I told her I figure if my kids have it, then by damn, so should yours and she just shook her head like I was simple, smiled that bitter smile she had and said, “I figure if my kids can’t have it, then neither should yours.”

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